What's On at the Faculty of Music, Michaelmas Term 2017

WHAT’S ON

at the Faculty of Music Michaelmas Term 2017 Volume 5, No. 1

CONTENTS

Endellion String Quartet 3 Academy of Ancient Music 4 Ligeti Quartet 6 Britten Sinfonia 7 Cambridge University Musical Society 8 Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert Series 10 Cambridge University Collegium Musicum 11 Cambridge University New Music Ensemble 11 Cambridge University Opera Society 12 Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra 12 Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies 13 Practising Performance Series 14 Faculty of Music Colloquia 17 Composers’ Workshops 18 Cambridge Festival of Ideas 20 College events 21 Events listing 27

Faculty of Music University of Cambridge 11 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP W: www.mus.cam.ac.uk E: facultyevents@mus.cam.ac.uk

Cover: St John’s College, Cambridge © Matt Bilton, Pageworks

This brochure is published by the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies, and its main purpose is to promote Faculty events. If you think your event should be included in next term’s issue, please email facultyevents@mus.cam.ac.uk with details of your event.

All event information for the next issue must be submitted to the editor by Friday, 1 December 2017.

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THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET Andrew Watkinson, violin Ralph de Souza, violin Garfield Jackson, viola David Waterman, cello Wednesday, 18 October 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 18 No. 1 Thomas Adès Arcadiana, Op. 12 Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 Barry Douglas, guest pianist TICKETS: £27; OAP: £25; reg. disabled: £13; students and under 16s: £6. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets. T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Haydn String Quartet, Op. 74 No. 3: Rider Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3, Op. 73 Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 74: Harp TICKETS: £27; OAP: £25; reg. disabled: £13; students and under 16s: £6. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets. T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets

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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Friday, 20 October 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm

Italy in England Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 4 Handel Concerto for Oboe No. 3 in G minor Geminiani Concerto Grosso, Op. 5 No. 3 (after Corelli) Sammartini Sinfonia in G major Avison Concerto Grosso in D minor, No. 3: The Garden of Harmony (after Scarlatti) Sammartini Concerto for Oboe in E-flat major Handel Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 5 Frank de Bruine, oboe

Musical migration and cross-fertilisation were at a peak in the eighteenth century. Arriving in England, the Italian concerto grosso was soon adopted by London’s fashionable musical circles. Whether penned by Italians or composed by Englishmen after the Italian style, the combative character and exciting virtuosity of the form had a profound impact on the music-making and composition of the baroque and early classical age. The works in this programme explore the development of the concerto grosso across the continent and illustrate the pervasive influence of Italian music in England.

TICKETS: £33, £27, £15; AAMplify members and students: £5. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets.

T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets © Academy of Ancient Music

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Wednesday, 1 November 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm

Bless’d Isle – with Carolyn Sampson

Bach and Telemann – Reversed Fortunes

Dowland Lachrimae Pavan Dowland In darkness let me dwell Lawes Fantasy in six parts Blow and Purcell Songs Purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen Purcell Chacony in G minor Handel Arias Handel Concerto for Organ, No. 13 in F major: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale Arne Songs Richard Egarr, director, organ & harpsichord Carolyn Sampson, soprano ‘Where words leave off, music begins’: a celebration of the mastery of English composers from Dowland to Arne and their setting of words to music.

Carolyn Sampson reveals the diversity of her artistry, opening with Dowland’s stark and spare In darkness let me dwell and ending on a rousing and roistering note as our Britannia of song. This range is matched in plaintive and playful orchestral music including a performance of Handel’s frolicsome Cuckoo and Nightingale organ concerto by Music Director Richard Egarr.

TICKETS: £33, £27, £15; AAMplify members and students: £5. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets.

T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets

J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 Telemann Concerto for Flute and Recorder in E minor Telemann Overture-suite, Burlesque de Quixotte J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 Bojan Čičić, director & violin Rachel Brown, flute & recorder Rachel Beckett, recorder Alastair Ross, harpsichord In the first of two concerts marking the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, soloists from the Academy of Ancient Music perform some of the greatest music by these joint pillars of the German baroque.

‘Frankly exquisite string playing from the Academy of Ancient Music...brought an elegant freshness which was truly beautiful. The lithe, dynamic lines ... positively gleamed with a tangible sense of fun ... played with flourish and superb control.’

BACHTRACK TICKETS: £33, £27, £15; AAMplify members and students: £5. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets.

T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets

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LIGETI QUARTET Thursday 26th October 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Ligeti Quartet: Remembering the Future J. S. Bach (arr. Birtwistle) Three Fugues from The Art of Fugue (2008) Webern String Quartet, Op. 28 (1936) Joanna Bailie Five Famous Adagios (2006) Stef Conner Singing Strings (2017) Stravinsky Concertino for String Quartet (1920) Sofia Gubaidulina Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H (2002) Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No. 2 (1998)

The Ligeti Quartet, one of the ensembles in residence at Cambridge, presents Remembering the Future. This concert explores the history and future of music: transformations of famous baroque works, visionary early twentieth-century quartets, Haas’s reinterpretations of tradition, and the world premiere of award-winning composer Stef Conner’s Singing Strings: A Contemporary Quartet in Conversation.

TICKETS: £16; early bird: £12; students: £5.

Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

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BRITTEN SINFONIA

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 1.00pm, West Road Concert Hall Post-concert talk at 2.15pm

At Lunch One 2017–18 Sarah Kirkland Snider Pale as Centuries OPUS2017 winner New work (world premiere tour) Judd Greenstein City Boy Nik Bärtsch New work (world premiere tour) Nik Bärtsch, piano Laura Lucas, flute Joy Farrall, clarinet Roger Linley, double bass James Woodrow, electric guitar Nik Bärtsch’s (1) music was praised by the New York Times for blending ‘post-modernism with a precision groove honed in the spirit of James Brown’. As curator, Bärtsch has set his latest work alongside works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein

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and the winner of OPUS2017, Britten Sinfonia’s competition for unpublished composers.

TICKETS: £9; concessions: £3. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets. T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets Tuesday, 21 November 2017 2.15pm, West Road Concert Hall foyer

In Conversation Tim Watts (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge) joins Nik Bärtsch and performers from Britten Sinfonia for a post-concert discussion.

TICKETS: Free for concert ticket holders

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY (CUMS)

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Saturday, 21 October 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Friday, 24 November 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Season Launch Concert

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra

Bernstein Overture to Candide Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals Milhaud Le bœuf sur le toit

Saxophonist Trish Clowes performs her compositions as a soloist, backed by CUJO.

Cambridge University Orchestra Tom Poster, conductor/piano Naomi Woo (1), piano TICKETS: £20, £14, £10; concessions: £18, £12, £8; students: £5. Available from ADC Ticketing.

T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com Saturday, 28 October 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Grieg Piano Concerto Beethoven Egmont Overture Grieg Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Cambridge University Sinfonia Natalia Luis-Bassa (2), conductor Toby Hession, piano (CUMS Concerto Competition 2017 prize-winner) TICKETS: £20, £14, £10; concessions: £18, £12, £8; students: £5. Available from ADC Ticketing.

T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

CUJO is Cambridge University’s 20-strong premiere jazz ensemble, fresh from recent performances at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, and the Cambridge Jazz Festival. They have collaborated with jazz legends such as Liane Carroll, Ian Shaw, Laurence Cottle, Mark Armstrong and, most recently, Soweto Kinch. They have toured Berlin, Budapest, Prague and Istanbul, and recorded a CD in Bordeaux in 2014.

TICKETS: £15; students £6. Available from Cambridge Live Tickets. T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets Saturday, 25 November 2017 7.30pm, Saffron Hall

Handel, Israel in Egypt Handel Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6 No. 10 Handel Israel in Egypt Cambridge University Symphony Chorus East Anglia Chamber Orchestra Richard Wilberforce (4), conductor Sophia Larsson & Iúnó Connolly, sopranos Christopher Lowrey, alto Adam Temple-Smith, tenor Gareth John & Nicholas Mogg, basses TICKETS: £28, £22, £15, £10; concessions: £26, £20, £13, £8; students: £24, £18, £11, £6, or £5 on the door, subject to availability. Available from Saffron Hall Box Office. T: 0845 548 7650; W: www.saffronhall.com/book

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Saturday, 25 November 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Saturday, 2 December 2017 8.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

Sir Mark Elder conducts Cambridge University Orchestra

Schumann Faust Overture Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5: Reformation Cambridge University Sinfonia Toby Hession (3), conductor Adelaide Yue, piano (CUMS Concerto Competition 2017 prize-winner) TICKETS: £20, £14, £10; concessions: £18, £12, £8; students: £5. Available from ADC Ticketing.

T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com Tuesday, 28 November 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Richard Saucedo Persistance Copland (arr. Robert Longfield) Variations on a Shaker Melody (from Appalachian Spring) Ponchielli Trumpet Concerto Copland An Outdoor Adventure Adam Gorb Midnight in Buenos Aires Martin Ellerby Paris Sketches Cambridge University Wind Orchestra William Barnes-McCallum, conductor Nick Smith, trumpet (CUMS Concerto Competition 2017 prize-winner) TICKETS: £10; concessions: £8; Students £3.

Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

Schreker Kammersymphonie Debussy Rhapsody for Clarinet Brahms Symphony No. 1 Cambridge University Orchestra Sir Mark Elder (5), conductor Sergio Castillo Lopez (6), clarinet TICKETS: £30, £25, £20, £10; students: £26, £21, £16, £6 or £5 on the door, subject to availability.

Available from The Shop at King’s. T: 01223 769340; W: shop.kings.cam.ac.uk

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES

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Tuesday, 10 October 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

The Arc Quartet

IAS Wind Dectet

Mozart String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7, Op. 108

Émile Bernard Divertissement, Op. 36 Jean Françaix Neuf pièces caracteristiques

Anita Monserrat & Anahita Falaki, violins Leni Sewart & Dorothy Hoskins, violas Orla Papadakis, cello

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection Tuesday, 17 October 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Cello Recital: Leo Popplewell Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 102 No. 1 in C major Rachmaninov Cello Sonata, Op. 19 Leo Popplewell (1), cello (CUMS Concerto Competition 2017 prizewinner) Mikey Pandya, piano

Tuesday, 7 November 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

Cambridge University Minimalist Ensemble Terry Riley In C TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection Tuesday, 14 November 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall Delius Two Pieces for Small Orchestra Mahler Rückert-Lieder

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

Helena Moore & Cambridge Mahler Orchestra Edward Liebrecht, conductor

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

The King’s Men

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 1.10pm, West Road Concert Hall

A concert of jazz and close harmony from the choral scholars of King’s College Choir (2).

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

The Two Henrys: Music from Early Tudor England Ensemble Pro Victoria Humphrey Thompson, director TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COLLEGIUM MUSICUM

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall Pre-concert talk at 7.15pm by Alan Howard

Friday, 17 November 2017 8.00pm, St John’s Old Divinity School Pre-concert talk at 7.00pm: Judith Weir in conversation with Richard Causton

In Praise of St Cecilia’s Day

Nuits d’Afrique: The Music of Judith Weir

Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art Purcell Hail, Bright Cecilia

Barbara White My Barn Having Burned to the Ground I Can Now See the Moon Judith Weir (3) Nuits d’Afrique Judith Weir Three Chorales Judith Weir Day Break Shadows Flee Judith Weir Blue-Green Hill Camden Reeves Starlight Squid Richard Causton Phoenix Jeremy Thurlow New work (world premiere)

Cambridge University Collegium Musicum Cambridge University Chamber Choir Margaret Faultless (1) & Nicholas Mulroy (2), directors Edward Reeve, continuo TICKETS: £15, £10, £8; concessions: £13, £8, £6; students: £5. Available from ADC Ticketing.

T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

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TICKETS: £12; students: £3 (tickets include a glass of wine in the interval). Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OPERA SOCIETY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Friday, 27 October 2017 8.00pm, Trinity College Chapel Saturday, 28 October 2017 2.30pm & 8.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

Handel: Radamisto Tom Stell, director Luke Fitzgerald, conductor Cambridge University Opera Society, in partnership with Trinity College Music Society CUOS and TCMS present one of Handel’s finest operas, Radamisto. Sung in English, the production takes Handel’s and librettist Haym’s exotic setting, themes and characters to new heights with stylized costumes and mysterious gestural languages inspired

by Chinese theatre.

TICKETS: £12; concessions: £10; students: £5; TCMS members: free. Available at www.cuos.co.uk Wednesday, 8 – Saturday, 11 November 2017 11.00pm, ADC Theatre

Holst: Sãvitri Judith Lebiez, director Naomi Woo, musical director Michaela Higham, producer Emerging from the silence, a voice resonates. Death warns Sāvitri that the time of her dear husband Satyavān has come. Armed with compassion, wisdom and the sheer power of love, Sāvitri engages Death in a battle to claim her husband. But can one woman outwit even Death?

TICKETS: £6–£7 (Wednesday £5–£6). Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@ adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

Monday, 20 November 2017 8.00pm, West Road Concert Hall

Soirée Fantastique Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra Joshua Ballance & Jack Bazalgette, conductors TICKETS: £12; concessions: £8; students, children, staff, and alumni: £5. Available online from www.cuso.org.uk approximately one month before the concert. General enquiries: cuso-ticketing@srcf.ucam.org

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CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE STUDIES

Launched in April 2015, CMPS plays a leading international role in the field of musical performance studies.

In Cambridge, the Centre supports a programme of masterclasses, workshops, Side-by-Side events, and other ‘talk-and-play events’ such as lecture-recitals and open rehearsals. These shed light on the knowledge that is created and conveyed in performance, and on how musical performance takes shape over time. During Michaelmas Term 2017, CMPS will host public presentations, ‘Practising Performance’ events, and a ‘Meet the Composer’ session held with the Britten Sinfonia. CMPS will also run a reading group for young researchers featuring talks from visiting scholars. The Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies is directed by John Rink, working in collaboration with Margaret Faultless and Martin Ennis.

Cambridge Performance Studies Forum The events in this Forum are intended to present practice-led research on musical performance and to foster dialogue and debate between musicians, musicologists and others across a broad range of interests and backgrounds.

Tuesday, 10 October 2017 5.00pm–6.30pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (film and discussion) Shihan de Silva (University of London) This session features a film produced and directed

by Shihan de Silva on the easterly movement of Africans both voluntary and involuntary. Performing traditional art forms enables Afro-Sri Lankans to carve out a niche in the cultural arena of their hostland. Fading memories of slavery and the slave trade can still be heard in the narratives of their oral histories.

Monday, 30 October 2017 Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DT 3.30pm–5.30pm, Room 208, Silk Street Building

Research Masterclass Professor Neil Heyde (1) (Royal Academy of Music) works with two doctoral students specialising in the field of practice-led research.

This event is open to current postgraduate students by application to CMPS. 6.30pm–7.30pm, Music Hall, Silk Street Building

ResearchWorks Not Just Tools: Revealing the Instrument in Musical Practice Professor Neil Heyde explores some of the ways in which an instrument-led perspective can shed special light on musical practice, drawing case-study examples from recent music that invokes the past.

These events are organised by CMPS in conjunction with the Institute of Musical Research and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

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PRACTISING PERFORMANCE A series of workshops and masterclasses at the Faculty of Music, curated by Margaret Faultless, Director of Performance. Practising Performance events are free and all are open to the public, but because space is limited, please email Chloe Davidson (cnd26@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Cambridge University Students (including those not reading Music) wishing to take part in any of these events should email mf413@cam.ac.uk.

Thursday, 2 November 2017 2.00pm–4.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Practising with Robert Cohen – How to create time-efficient, productive and enjoyable practice

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Friday, 20 October 2017 2.00pm–4.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Piano Masterclass with Tom Poster

During 35 years of his distinguished international career, Robert Cohen (2) has been hailed as one of the foremost cellists of our time. As well as being invited to perform concertos worldwide, he has made many recordings and is an inspiring conductor.

In January 2012, Cohen became Cellist of the legendary Fine Arts Quartet. His passionate views on the art of learning, performing and communicating music have been widely published, and in 2010 he became a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, where he gives lectures on practising, sound, memory, performance anxieties and concentration.

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Tom Poster (1) is internationally recognised as a pianist of outstanding artistry and versatility, in demand as both soloist and chamber musician across an unusually extensive repertoire. Equally at home directing Mozart and Beethoven from the piano as in the high-octane virtuosity of Rachmaninov or Ligeti, Tom has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s major orchestras.

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Saturday, 4 November 2017 10.00am–5.30pm, Faculty of Music and Sunday, 5 November 2017 10.30pm–5.30pm, Faculty of Music (2.30pm–5.30pm session open to the public)

Women Conductors’ Workshop In association with the Royal Philharmonic Society Led by acclaimed conductor Alice Farnham (3) and run by the Royal Philharmonic Society, this Phase 1 Women Conductors’ workshop is aimed at encouraging female music students aged 16 and over to pick up the baton and take to the conductor’s podium. Over two days, the participants will get the chance to work with pianists, instrumental ensembles, and a stagecraft and body language coach on the conductor’s podium, receiving individual guidance and feedback from the workshop leaders. The workshop is ideal for those who have never considered conducting and want to

give it a try, as well as those with some conducting experience who would like to reaffirm these skills.

Four full scholarships are available to Cambridge University students. Contact the Director of Performance, Margaret Faultless (mf413@cam.ac.uk), for information.

For details on other applications and how to purchase observer tickets, please visit www.womenconductors.org/workshops/phase_1/ cambridge

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Wednesday, 15 November 2017 2.00pm–4.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Thursday, 30 November 2017 2.00pm–4.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Vocal Workshop with Nicholas Mulroy

Conducting Workshop with Sir Mark Elder (repetiteurs welcome)

Nicholas Mulroy (4) is one of the world’s foremost evangelists in the Bach Passions, as well as being acclaimed for his performances of Lieder and contemporary music. His recording credits include a Gramophone Award-winning Messiah and many other warmly received performances. Nicholas, a graduate of Clare College, is committed to helping young singers and understands the particular challenges of singing in Cambridge.

Sir Mark Elder (5) has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–93), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–95) and Music Director of Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, USA (1989–94). He has held positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players, and is a Principal Artist of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. We are extremely grateful that alongside conducting CUMS this week he has time to take a class at the Faculty of Music.

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FACULTY OF MUSIC COLLOQUIA

The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty of Music, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

Wednesday, 4 October 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Wednesday, 1 November 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Peter McMurray (1) University of Cambridge

Shay Loya

Orality 3.0; or Siri, can you beatbox?

Hybrid Topics and Allusions in Liszt’s Csárdás macabre

Wednesday, 11 October 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Wednesday, 8 November 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Philip Bullock (2)

City University of London

Tim Summers

University of Oxford

University of Oxford

‘I almost always know how much money I have’: Chaikovsky and the Market for Classical Music in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Opera in Video Games

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Rachel Harris (3)

SOAS, University of London Musical Border-Crossing Projects along the Silk Road: Listening Publics and Groove Wednesday, 25 October 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Valeria De Lucca

University of Southampton

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Matthew Head and Esther Cavett

King’s College London

Howard Skempton, composer: Narratives and Reflections Wednesday, 22 November 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Katherine Hambridge Durham University

Wednesday, 29 November 2017 5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Julian Johnson

Royal Holloway, University of London Debussy, La Mer, and the Aesthetics of Appearing

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COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOPS

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The Faculty’s series of Composers’ Workshops is open to students in all years of the undergraduate music course, as well as Master’s and doctoral students, indeed anyone with an interest in the creation of new music. Because space is limited, please email Richard Causton (rjc94@cam.ac.uk) if you are not a Faculty member and wish to attend.

Tuesday, 10 October 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Richard Causton

PhD Composers

Richard Causton (1), the Music Faculty’s Reader in Composition, has been described as ‘one of the most courageous and uncompromising artists working today’. He introduces this term’s Composers’ Workshops and welcomes to the Faculty those interested in new music before speaking about his own work, focusing on two works for large orchestra, Twenty-Seven Heavens (2012) and Millennium Scenes (1999/2001).

Some of Cambridge’s finest young composers discuss their recent work from the point of view of both poetic and technical considerations. An insight into some of the most exciting creative work being produced on home turf.

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Tom Coult Currently Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Tom Coult’s (2) music is a product of his extraordinarily refined ear for sonority. It is infused with a sense of play and fantasy: My Curves are not Mad draws on the playful cutouts of Matisse, while Enmîmés sont les gougebosqueux derives from Lewis Carroll’s Jaberwocky (translating made-up English into madeup French).

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Edward Nesbit We are delighted to welcome back Edward Nesbit (3), who graduated from Cambridge in 2007 with first-class honours in Music. Since then, he has carved out an enviable position as one of the leading composers of his generation, working with groups such as the LSO, BBCSO and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is currently Teaching Fellow at King’s College London.

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Tuesday, 7 November 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Sally Beamish

John Woolrich

Sally Beamish (4) is one of today’s most sought-after composers. Her music embraces influences including jazz and Scottish traditional music, in a catalogue boasting over 200 compositions including solo, duo, chamber, orchestra, vocal, choral, ballet and opera works. Today’s workshop offers a rare opportunity to hear her speak about her creative work.

Wide-ranging and always thought-provoking, Woolrich (6) is a much commissioned and frequently performed composer, a highly creative teacher and an original programmer. A number of preoccupations thread through his varied output, including the art of creative transcription and a fascination with machinery and mechanical processes (heard in many pieces including The Ghost in the Machine and The Barber’s Timepiece).

Tuesday, 14 November 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Gabriel Prokofiev London-based Gabriel Prokofiev (5) is a composer, producer, DJ and founder of the Nonclassical record label & club night. His distinctive sound is informed by his background as a producer of hip-hop, grime and electro records, as well as his earlier involvement in electroacoustic music. His Concerto for Turntables was performed at the BBC Proms in August 2011 to critical acclaim.

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 2.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music

Ligeti Quartet and MPhil Composers The Ligeti Quartet, inaugural holder of Cambridge’s new Chamber Music Residency, is one of the most exciting and dynamic ensembles working today.

Dedicated exclusively to twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury music, the quartet plays with extraordinary energy and intensity. Here they showcase works especially composed for them by composers on the Cambridge MPhil programme.

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Wednesday, 25 October 2017 7.30pm, Old Labs, Newnham College

F R E A K FLOODS F R E A K FLOODS is a text–sound collaboration between writer/vocalist Emily DeDakis (1) (USA) and harper/sonic artist Úna Monaghan (Ireland), combining live improvised performance with recorded soundscape. Spoken word mingles with sung moments, electronic sound collage and improvised harp accompaniment to bring lost people and geopolitical shifts to lyrical life. It’s a skewwhiff symphony in ten movements – a hymn for a flooded city, a lullaby for a missing brother and an immigrant’s post-Brexit prayer. On the surface it’s about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America; flickering below is a spectrum of possible places in between and the impossibility of keeping still.

The performance is followed by Q&A with the artists.

TICKETS: Free. Available from T: 01223 766 766; W: www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk

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Thursday, 26 October 2017 6.00pm, Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Music

Does Music Speak the Truth?

The ways in which we listen to art music – silently, attentively, hopefully – point towards a common belief that music can provide access to unspeakable truth. There are, in this picture, some truths that are simply too profound to be put into words, but to which we can nonetheless gain access through the musical masterworks of great composers.

Set against millennia of music history, however, such a belief is relatively new, emerging only in the years around 1800. In this talk, Tomas McAuley (2) investigates the origins of this idea, and asks just how plausible it really is. Are we right to think that music can provide access to unspeakable truth? And if music can provide access to such truth, is art music really the best place to turn? The talk is illuminated by musical examples taken from the work of Beethoven and Christina Perri.

TICKETS: Free. Tickets available from T: 01223 766766; W: www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk

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COLLEGE EVENTS Sunday, 8 October 2017 8.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Saturday, 21 October 2017 6.30pm, St John’s College Chapel

KCMS Opening Gala Concert

Evensong

Bach, Bruckner and Brahms Motets R. Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie

Durante Magnificat J. S. Bach Cantata No. 80: Ein feste Burg

Members of King’s College Choir & King’s Voices King’s College Symphony Orchestra Trojan Nakade, Henry Websdale, Joshua Balance

The Choir of St John’s College Andrew Nethsingha, director St John’s Sinfonia Margaret Faultless, leader

TICKETS: £20; King’s members: £15; students & children: £5. Available from The Shop at King’s.

T: 01223 769340; W: shop.kings.cam.ac.uk Sunday, 15 October 2017 2.30pm, Girton College Chapel

Andrew Reid (organ) Andrew Reid, Director of the Royal School of Church Music, returns to Girton to present a varied programme of organ works on the St-Martin organ.

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

TICKETS: Admission free; unticketed. This service will end at approximately 7.50pm.

Sunday, 22 October 2017 6.00pm, Fellows’ Drawing Room, Murray Edwards College

‘Humanist Happenings’ Series: Inaugural event Works by Gibbons, Kate Whitley and others Inter Alios Choir Mark Gotham, director The ‘Humanist Happenings’ are peaceful events with music, poetry and a short address all organised around a topical theme.

TICKETS: Admission free; unticketed

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© Nick Rutter

Friday, 3 November 2017 7.30pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College Saturday, 4 November 2017 10.30am, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College

Composers’ Workshop with Automatronic Corpus welcomes Huw Morgan and Lauren Redhead from Automatronic to lead workshops in the art of composing using acoustic and computer-generated sounds. Automatronic (automatronic.co.uk) is a collective, formed in 2013, that seeks to explore, commission, promote and perform new music for the unique combination of organ and electronics. An exciting opportunity suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate composers and those with a more general interest in the field.

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Thursday, 2 November 2017 6.00pm, Clare College Chapel

Choral Eucharist for All Souls’ Day Richafort Missa pro defunctis: Requiem Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (1) Graham Ross, conductor

TICKETS: Admission free for students; non-students: £5. For more information, please contact Robin Walker. E: rw579@corpus.cam.ac.uk.

Monday, 6 November 2017 8.00pm, Stanley Library, Girton College

A Schumanniade

Graham Ross conducts the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge perform Richafort’s six-part Requiem in a Choral Eucharist for All Souls’ Day.

Girton students and Fellows combine forces to present a programme of works by Robert and Clara Schumann in various genres; the concert is curated

by Margaret Faultless, Martin Ennis and Gareth Wilson.

TICKETS: Admission free; unticketed

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

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© Satoru Mitsuta

Known for her sensitivity for creating musical timbres, Japanese virtuoso pianist Noriko Ogawa presents an imaginative programme featuring contemporary Japanese music alongside some of the pillars of the Western piano repertoire. The programme highlights the influence of Debussy’s and Liszt’s evocative works on the sonorities of leading modern Japanese composers.

TICKETS: £15; Clare Hall members: £10; students: £5. Available from music@clarehall.cam.ac.uk; (01223) 332360 or at the Porters’ Lodge Sunday 12 November 2017 8.30pm, Selwyn College Chapel

The Cantabrigians Remember Music by David Bednall, Burgon, Duruflé, Andrew Downes, Lassus, and Ockeghem

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This new Cambridge professional female vocal ensemble is garnering impressive reviews.

The singers are alumnae of Cambridge’s many outstanding choirs, and they will perform a special concert for SCMS of repertoire for Remembrance Sunday.

TICKETS: Admission free; retiring collection

Saturday, 11 November 2017 7.30pm, Clare Hall

Intimate Engagements. European and Japanese Piano Music: Nature and Life Debussy Estampes and Images Book I Toru Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II Yoshihiro Kanno A Particle of Water Rentarõ Taki Grudge Liszt Sonata in B minor Noriko Ogawa (2), piano

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Friday, 17 November 2017 6.15pm, Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College

Friday, 17 November 2017 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall

Burnaby Recital: Brahms and Schütz

Clare College Music Society Michaelmas Term Concert (4)

Schütz Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, SWV 29 Brahms ‘Blessed are they that mourn’, ‘Behold, all flesh is as the grass’, and ‘Lord, make me to know the measure of my days’ from A German Requiem (London version, 1872) Schütz Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391 Choir of King’s College London (3) Joseph Fort, director A week before releasing their new recording of this work, the Choir of King’s College London perform three movements from Brahms’s German Requiem in its 1872 English setting – as it was known in nineteenth-century Britain – together with two motets by Schütz that inspired Brahms’ composition.

TICKETS: Admission free; unticketed.

Duration 45 minutes

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Smetana ‘Vltava’ from Ma Vlast Strauss The Blue Danube Dvořák Symphony No. 9: From the New World Zak Price, Rhea Gupta, Eleanor Carter and Toby Hession, conductors TICKETS: £15; concessions: £12; students: £5.

Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

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Sunday, 19 November 2017 8.00pm, King’s College Chapel

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 8.15pm, St John’s College Chapel

Seraphin Chamber Orchestra Michaelmas Concert

The Joyful Mystery

Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky Schumann Cello Concerto R. Strauss Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings Seraphin Chamber Orchestra Joy Lisney, conductor Laura van der Heijden, cello TICKETS: £12; students & children: £5. Available from The Shop at King’s. T: 01223 769340; W: shop.kings.cam.ac.uk

Schütz Christmas Story Biber Mystery Sonatas Praetorius Motets St John’s Voices Cambridge Baroque Camerata Guildhall Historical Brass Ensemble, led by Jeremy West Graham Walker, director The first three of Biber’s remarkable Mystery Sonatas are interspersed with lively Advent motets

by Michael Praetorius. Heinrich Schütz’ Weihnachtshistorie, written in 1664, is notable for its dramatic interludes and imaginative textures, not least the music for the High Priests, scored for four solo basses, two trombones and continuo.

TICKETS: £12; students: £5. Available (from November) from Cambridge Live Tickets. T: 01223 357851; E: tickets@cambridgelivetrust.co.uk; W: www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets

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Friday, 24 November 2017 6.00pm, Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall

Piano Recital Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II Thomas Adès Three Mazurkas Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Reiko Fujisawa, piano (5) TICKETS: Free; email programmes.manager@ hughes.cam.ac.uk for details

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Thursday, 30 November 2017 1.00pm, Trinity College Chapel

Lunchtime Concert The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge Stephen Layton, director Join the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, directed

by Stephen Layton (6), for a free lunchtime concert.

TICKETS: Admission free; unticketed Friday, 1 December 2017 7.30pm, Chapel at Churchill College

Unfinished Business Brahms Requiem (movements 1–3) Schubert Unfinished Symphony The Orchestra on the Hill Inter Alios Choir Mark Gotham, director This concert marks the 150th anniversary of the Brahms Requiem.

TICKETS: £8, £5, £3. Available on the door

Saturday, 2 December 2017 7.30pm, St John’s College Chapel

Handel: Messiah Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Margaret Faultless, leader) Graham Ross, conductor Elin Manahan-Thomas, soprano Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor Andrew Tortise, tenor Jonathan Brown, bass Graham Ross conducts the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a stunning line-up of soloists in Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah.

TICKETS: £25, £20, £15, £10. Available from ADC Ticketing. T: 01223 300085; E: boxoffice@adctheatre.com; W: www.adcticketing.com

EVENTS LISTING October 4

5.00pm

Colloquium: Peter McMurray

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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8

8.00pm

King's College Music Society Opening Gala Concert

King's College Chapel

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10

1.10pm

The Arc Quartet

West Road Concert Hall

10

10

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Richard Causton

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

18

10

5.00pm

Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

13

11

5.00pm

Colloquium: Philip Bullock

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

17

15

2.30pm

Organ recital: Andrew Reid

Girton College Chapel

21

17

1.10pm

Cello recital: Leo Popplewell

West Road Concert Hall

10

17

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Tom Coult

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

18

18

5.00pm

Colloquium: Rachel Harris

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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18

7.30pm

Endellion String Quartet

West Road Concert Hall

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2.00pm

Piano Masterclass with Tom Poster

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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20

7.30pm

AAM: Italy in England

West Road Concert Hall

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21

6.30pm

Evensong with St John's Sinfonia

St John's College Chapel

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21

8.00pm

CUMS: Season Launch Concert

West Road Concert Hall

8

22

6.00pm

Humanist Happenings series: Inaugural event

Murray Edwards College

21

24

1.10pm

The King's Men

West Road Concert Hall

10

24

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: PhD Composers

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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25

5.00pm

Colloquium: Valeria de Lucca

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

17

25

7.30pm

Festival of Ideas: F R E A K FLOODS

Old Labs, Newnham College

20

25

6.00pm

Festival of Ideas: Does Music Speak the Truth?

Faculty of Music

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7.30pm

Ligeti Quartet: Remembering the Future

West Road Concert Hall

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8.00pm

CUOS: Handel Radamisto

Trinity College Chapel

12

28

2.30pm

CUOS: Handel Radamisto

Trinity College Chapel

12

28

8.00pm

CUOS: Handel Radamisto

Trinity College Chapel

12

28

8.00pm

Grieg Piano Concerto

West Road Concert Hall

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3.30pm

CMPS: Research Masterclass

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

13

30

6.30pm

CMPS: ResearchWorks

Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

13

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1.10pm

IAS Wind Dectet

West Road Concert Hall

10

31

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Edward Nesbit

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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November 1

5.00pm

Colloquium: Shay Loya

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

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7.30pm

AAM: Bless'd Isle – with Carolyn Sampson

West Road Concert Hall

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2.00pm

Practising with Robert Cohen

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

14

2

6.00pm

Choral Eucharist for All Souls' Day

Clare College Chapel

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3

7.30pm

Composers’ Workshop with Automatronic

Corpus Christi College

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4

10.30am

Composers’ Workshop with Automatronic

Corpus Christi College

22

5

2.30pm

Women Conductors’ Workshop (public session)

Faculty of Music

15

6

8.00pm

A Schumanniade

Girton College

22

7

1.10pm

Cambridge University Minimalist Orchestra

West Road Concert Hall

10

7

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Sally Beamish

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

19

8

5.00pm

Colloquium: Tim Summers

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

17

8

11.00pm

CUOS: Holst Sãvitri

ADC Theatre

12

9

11.00pm

CUOS: Holst Sãvitri

ADC Theatre

12

10

11.00pm

CUOS: Holst Sãvitri

ADC Theatre

12

11

11.00pm

CUOS: Holst Sãvitri

ADC Theatre

12

11

7.30pm

Intimate Engagements: European and Japanese Piano Music

Clare Hall

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November (cont) 12

8.30pm

The Cantabrigians Remember

Selwyn College Chapel

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14

1.10pm

Helena Moore and the Cambridge Mahler Orchestra

West Road Concert Hall

10

14

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Gabriel Prokofiev

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

19

15

2.00pm

Vocal Workshop with Nicholas Mulroy

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

16

15

5.00pm

Colloquium: Matthew Head and Esther Cavett

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

17

15

7.30pm

Endellion String Quartet

West Road Concert Hall

17

6.15pm

Burnaby Recital: Brahms and Schütz

Emmanuel College

24

17

7.30pm

Clare College Music Society Michaelmas Concert

West Road Concert Hall

24

17

8.00pm

Nuits d'Afrique: The Music of Judith Weir

St John's Old Divinity School

11

19

8.00pm

Seraphin Chamber Orchestra Michaelmas Concert

King's College Chapel

25

20

8.00pm

CUSO: Soirée Fantastique

West Road Concert Hall

12

21

1.00pm

Britten Sinfonia: At Lunch One 2017–18

West Road Concert Hall

21

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: John Woolrich

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

19

21

8.00pm

CUCM: In Praise of St Cecilia's Day

West Road Concert Hall

11

22

5.00pm

Colloquium: Katherine Hambridge

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

17

24

6.00pm

Piano recital: Reiko Fujisawa

Hughes Hall

25

24

7.30pm

CUJO: Cambridge Jazz Festival

West Road Concert Hall

8

25

7.30pm

Handel: Israel in Egypt

Saffron Hall

8

25

8.00pm

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

West Road Concert Hall

9

28

1.10pm

The Two Henrys: Music from Early Tudor England

West Road Concert Hall

10

28

2.00pm

Composers' Workshop: Ligeti Quartet and MPhil Composers

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

19

28

5.00pm

Colloquium: Julian Johnson

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

28

8.00pm

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

West Road Concert Hall

25

28

8.15pm

The Joyful Mystery

St John's College Chapel

17

30

1.00pm

Trinity College Choir

Trinity College Chapel

26

30

2.00pm

Conducting Workshop with Sir Mark Elder

Recital Room, Faculty of Music

16

3

7

9

December 1

7.30pm

Unfinished Business

Chapel at Churchill College

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2

7.30pm

Handel Messiah

St John's College Chapel

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2

8.00pm

Sir Mark Elder conducts Cambridge University Orchestra

King's College Chapel

9

12

7.30pm

AAM: Bach and Telemann – Reversed Fortunes

West Road Concert Hall

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